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Stories of Wallsend: A Week of History and Community
National World - LocalTV
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Wallsend History Week returned this summer, uniting the community in a celebration of the town’s rich and fascinating past; the very history that shaped the Wallsend we know today.
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To keep history alive, you've got to keep reminding people, especially younger people,
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of things that happened in the past and how it's shaped where we are now.
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So from my point of view, I've always liked history because history is a window in the past
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of what the future could be if you do things a bit better or whatever, you know.
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So I think it's important, especially like young school kids,
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they don't particularly know about a lot of the stuff that happened.
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Maybe it's 50, like 100 years ago.
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So being able to host events like this is very informative for them.
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And as part of this, we're actually doing talks in a local school with their school children.
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I think it's year two school children in there.
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So we've done a few of them in the past where we've done it and we've done guided tours.
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So it isn't just myself who does them, it's other people who are doing them.
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You know, the whole idea, as I say, it's just about sharing the history of Wall's End
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and trying to enthuse people, if you like, for the future.
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You know, they're taking an interest in history as well.
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Wall's End's name is rooted in history.
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It's the very end of Hadrian's Wall and was once home to the Roman fort Segedunum,
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which guarded the eastern terminus.
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During the 18th and 19th centuries, coal mining boomed with seven pits active between 7078 and 1935,
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employing 2,000 workers.
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Later, Wall's End became synonymous with shipbuilding.
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The Wigan Richardson Yard merged into Swan Hunter, where iconic vessels like the RMS Maritania,
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holder of the blue ribbon for the fastest Atlantic crossing, were constructed.
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Obviously, the things that excited us about Wall's End is the fact of all the history that's here.
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And most people know, obviously, about the Romans and the Segedunum Fort, which was the end of the Roman wall.
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But they don't really realise all the history that came after the Romans.
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And if you like, from our point of view in the History Society, we want to have the Romans,
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which is very important, but also have the rest of the stuff like the first colliery wagon wares that came here.
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You know, the world beating Wall's End colliery at the time with John Buddle,
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this famous viewer of a colliery who invented, like, splitting the air system and, you know,
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and the dumb furnace or stuff that people don't really realise about.
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Well, these were all monumental, like, facts about Wall's End.
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Something else is that people probably don't realise that Wall's End was one of the first places to have power generation.
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They had two power stations and, because of that, they could actually power all the industries on the town.
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And it also enabled them to actually run a tram service from about 1901.
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And also, the Riverside Branch and Wall's End, a part of it, was the first branch lane,
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which was electrified outside of London's underground.
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And most people don't know these type of facts.
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Yeah, sorry.
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We're in the next process.
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